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ShareNPay

Introduction

The purpose of this document is to highlight the process and results of a real-world
implementation of a mobile based social payment application done by team Appsbee. The
document also provides a virtual guidance on how solutions were provided to every individual
requirements, making Share n Pay a global product.

Project details

SharenPay, Inc. is a Utah, U.S.A based startup, envisioned to make financial transactions
inherently a social engagement and easier than ever. The goal was to build a safe and easy
mobile platform that would enable payment and collection of money within peers. The intended
outcome was to allow users to communicate with anyone in the network, as well as check the
details of the concerned transactions.

Project Requirements

The primary requirement of SharenPay was to build a mobile platform ecosystem using social
network that uniquely modernizes the way financial transactions take place, and information
are shared, whilst combining a positive and enjoyable user experience. The performance
requirement was to build an end-to-end mobility solution that would provide a wide range of
functionality such as Pay, Collect, Share, and Instant Messaging. The design requirement
was to make a unified communication application that would be fast, secure, easy to use, and
easily accessible; that would allow stakeholders to be part of seamless financial
transactions, in a very social experience.

Significant features developed by Appsbee:

Robust and secured could based admin panel based on node application that supports both android and iOS apps. This application eventually connects different bank API to send/receive money in real time.

User profile setup and join the app – Any user from the state of Utah(for the moment its not nationwide), can join the app and can setup their profile themselves.

Global search - The ‘Global Search’ feature is designed in a manner that it enables a user to search a friend from anywhere within the ecosystem.

Pay - After detailed R&D, Appsbee team developed the ‘Pay’ functionality in a very simplified manner that enables an user to pay money using personalized 4 digit numbers. The feature is smartly designed by the team enabling a user to collect the money, if paid to a wrong addressee.

Collect- This functionality enables a user to receive funds from anyone within the shared network. To avoid any sort of unscrupulous act, the functionality is designed in a manner that it notifies both the parties for every ‘collect’ request made. The recipient can then either approve or decline the request.

Split- This feature is developed to encourage and enable group engagement within the network. The tool enables members in a group to split bills or collect funds for personalized activities. Development of such custom feature required constant up gradation and real time feeds which the Appsbee team met with very meticulously.

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Challenges:

The greatest challenge as well as opportunity for Appsbee was to build a social platform
that:

Proved to be easy for users

Would maintains high level of security for each of the transactions and interactions

Connects bank’s existing payment API

Would be scalable for company’s rapid growth

Allowed consistency in service worldwide

The visionary platform required integration of multiple mobile technologies. The application
requirement changed constantly, for which Appsbee team had to stretch the extra mile to meet
the time-to-market needs of the customer.

The project started with a prototype design of the entire system, which eventually evolved to
a larger application. Real inputs of users/ stakeholders were constantly fed into the system
design, to ensure that the final product design fits the market. The use of different
technologies, fragmented procedures, multiple online registrations, brought in an increased
level of complexity for the Appsbee team.

Solutions provided/ How Appsbee delivered

Most of the critical modules of SharenPay project were developed Appsbee; and the highly
experienced pool of Appsbee technicians with the leverage of modern technologies,
successfully attended the requirements, making SharenPay a successful product in the global
market. The Appsbee team from the very beginning worked in coordination with the SNP in-house
team, to make the system scalable, from database to functional level.

Appsbee team has showed their best hands in technical expertise to make the project a
success. Appsbee R&D team got involved and worked parallel with the development team in
introducing the latest technology and made it successful. Since it was agile development
process, and the client being a constant part of every cycle, technical challenges never
became a hindrance. The product has been developed for both iOS and Android platform. The
team has adopted Node js and Zend Framework for building the web service or API of the
product. The Admin section was developed using Zend Framework Version 1.0. The team had to
cope with the highly dynamic requirements, and put their best foot forward for rapid
implementation. Further, the development team also eliminated the time zone barrier to a
large extent by making themselves available, ensuring 70% overlap with SharenPay team’s time
zone.

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